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John Enoch

Of Counsel
Solicitor Advocate

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John Enoch

Of Counsel
Solicitor Advocate

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
2 College Square
Anchor Road
Bristol
BS1 5UE
United Kingdom
Languages English, German

John Enoch is Of Counsel in the Insurance & Reinsurance Group.  He specialises in defending professionals against claims of negligence and/or breach of trust.  Amongst a wide range of professions, John focuses particularly on claims against accountants, pension fund administrators, IFAs, insurance brokers, schools and voluntary organisations, as well as D&O claims.

Prior to joining CMS, John worked in senior positions in operations, finance and consultancy with multinational firms in publishing, technology and investment banking sectors.

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Relevant experience

  • Accounting firm on defence against claims alleging failing to warn of risk of change to tax position and conflict of interest.
  • Accounting firm on defence against claims alleging negligent breach of duty to partners disposing of assets.
  • Directors of insolvent businesses accused of wrongful trading, achieving excellent outcomes through mediations.
  • Pension fund administrators on claims that investments should not have been accepted into SIPPs.
  • Pension fund administrator on claim that pension payments wrongly allocated between SSAS members.
  • Schools and professional/voluntary organisations against allegations of discrimination.
  • Insurers on coverage issues on claims against accountants.
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Education

  • 2009 – LPC (Distinction), BPP, London
  • 2007 – LLB Hons (First Class), Open University
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Expertise

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07/03/2024
University’s Duties towards Disabled Student - The University of Bristol...
This judgment concerns the tragic case of a second-year physics student at the University of Bristol (the “Uni­ver­sity”) who ended her own life in April 2018. She had been diagnosed with depression...
Law-Now Insurance Corporate
03/06/2020
Execution-only SIPP provider not liable to investor
Background The defendant carried on business as an FCA-authorised SIPP provider and administrator. It was authorised to establish, operate and wind up SIPPs but was not authorised to provide advice on...
Regzone Financial Services & Regulation
27/05/2020
Execution-only SIPP provider not liable to investor
The High Court has held that an execution-only SIPP provider was not liable to an investor who sustained losses when he transferred an existing pension into a SIPP operated by the provider. The decision...
Law-Now Insurance
21/05/2020
Upper Tax Tribunal rules against pension fund administrator on in specie...
In its long-awaited decision in the case of HMRC v Sippchoice Limited, the Upper Tax Tribunal has allowed HMRC’s appeal against a first instance ruling in favour of Sippchoice and has found that the...
Law-Now Tax
27/02/2020
Education: vicarious liability for teacher's sexual abuse of pupil can...
The Court of Appeal has ruled that a local authority, as employer of a PE teacher who abused a boy whilst he was a pupil at the school and maintained a sexual relationship with him long after he left...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
16/08/2018
Upper Tribunal provides support for schools facing inordinate dis­crim­in­a­tion...
Discrimination claims are inevitably highly fact-sensitive. However, the ruling in the Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber, in the case of C & C v The Governing Body of a School[1], includes...
Law-Now Insurance Corporate
09/02/2018
Education: claim for alleged negligent teaching fails
A claim by a former student against Oxford University for alleged negligent quality of teaching in 2000 was rejected this week, but the judge forecast that with students now incurring substantial debts...
Law-Now Insurance
11/12/2017
Accountants' PI: ICAEW minimum terms and defence costs
A recent first instance decision on the ICAEW minimum terms (Oldham v QBE Insurance (Europe) Ltd) has confirmed that accountants may be liable to reimburse insurers for any defence costs advanced pending...
Law-Now Insurance
25/04/2017
Supreme Court overturns ruling on assessment of damages in accountants'...
The Supreme Court has ruled that, where loans made to a company on the basis of a firm of accountants’ negligent due diligence report had been repaid by the company using money borrowed from the lender’s...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
30/01/2017
Liability insurance: ascertainment of insured loss
The Court of Appeal has provided a useful reminder of the requirements to establish an insured loss under a programme of liability insurance, holding that a loss was not triggered at the point that a...
Law-Now Insurance Corporate
22/11/2016
Professional negligence claims: limitation and standstill agreements
The High Court has held that defendants were not precluded from relying on the terms of a Standstill Agreement because the claimants had mistakenly believed the standstill period had not expired. The...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
21/11/2016
Professional conduct guidelines in relation to taxation
Background On 19 March 2015, HM Treasury asked leading UK accountancy and tax bodies to review the existing Professional Conduct in Relation to Taxation (PCRT) with the aim of strengthening the guidance...
Law-Now Tax
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